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June 2025

American Impressionist
As a concept, “American Impressionism was always oxymoronic, like, say, Canadian salsa”: surely this sentence is too good to be true?
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Book Review: Paradise Lost by John Milton
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Opposition to Reason in Conservative Thought
“Conservatives are opposed to Reason”: a good summary, if one that makes for bad PR.
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"Everywhere, the spirit of equality prevails"
Henry Hulton served as Commissioner of Customs in Boston from 1767 to 1775.
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About The Author
The author was born in California, and ever since, he has associated west with toward the ocean.
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May 2025

All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing by Timothy Steele: Review and Refutation
Part 2 of Theory of Meter
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Poets on Poets: Kirsch on Graham and Ashbery
Free verse often leaves me cold: my dirty little secret.
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Hans Fritzsche at Nuremberg
This poem is part of the series Interviews With Vampires.
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Recent Advances in Knowledge of God
Time was, philosophers were skeptics, looking down on the poor benighted masses, who think their opinions are knowledge when they really aren’t.
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Philosophers on Film
In Damien Chazelle’s film Whiplash, Andrew Neiman, a drumming student at Schaffer Conservatory, is called to join Terence Fletcher’s studio band.
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